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NTTED STATES PATENT Trick.

VINCENT P. TRAVERS, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

HAMMOCK.

SPBCFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,096, dated May 17, 1887.

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To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that l, VINCENT P. TRAVERs, a resident of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Hammocks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to hammocks; and it consists in providing the hammock with a can opy and with a spreader, which may serve either as support for the canopy or as a brace or spreader for the hammock, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying` drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a hammock with a part of my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line ce, Fig. l. Fig. 3 shows the position of the spreader when serving as a brace for the hammock. Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the sleeve which unites the two parts of the spreader. Fig. 5 is a View showing the manner of attaching the canopy to the hammock. Figs. G and 7 show ways of attaching a thimble or socket to the canopy.

A is the hammock, which is of suitable construct-ion.

B B are the spreaders, which are attached to the outer cords, a a, of the hammock by passing the cords a` c through holes in the ends of the spreaders, as in Fig. 2. These spreaders are composed each of two parts, I) and e, held togetherdby a socket or thimble, D. (See Fig. 4.) This socket or thimble D has secured to it an eye, f, to which is attached a cord, g, which cord g is secured at its opposite end to the supporting-ring h or other' part of the hammock and serves as a support for the thi m ble D of thc spreader. Vhen the spreaders B B are to be used to spread the hammock,

,they are turned above the hammock to the the cords a, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3.

The canopy attachment consists of a canvas cover, E, which may be of such shape as to entirely inclose the hammock,or to cover only the body part of the hammock, as indicated in Fig. 5. This cover E has thimbles or sockets fr' and j, suitably secured thereto, into which thimbles or sockets tit the ends of the parts b and e ofthe spreader-SB B when thelatter are turned with the arch upward. This gives a rm support for the canopy, which support is carried by the hammock.

F is the head-rest, which is attached to the hammock by loops Z and m, secured to each end of the rest and passing over and around the ends of the spreader B, Figs. l and 2. This construction of rest does not require additional fixtures on the spreader as heretofore.

My improvedv hammock has the advantage that it may be used as a pleasure hammock, and also that it may be converted at any time into a very com tortable form of' camping tent. The spreaders being always connected with the hammock cannot be misplaced, and are readyto be turned into either of the three positions shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 5.

I do not broadly claim a sectional spreader, nor one having aseries of loops for connecting with the hammock throughout. Nor do I claim a continuous elastic spreader, nor anything shown in Patents Nos. 339,345 and 329,690.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is* 1. A hammockspreader made in. two parts, each of which is swiveled at its outer end to the outer cords of the hammock, thereby rendering each part of the spreader reversible, in combination with said hammock, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. A hammoekspreader made in. two parts, each of which is swiveled at its outer end to the outer cords of the hammock, the other cords of the hammock being disconnected from the spreader, in combination with the thimble D, carried separately by the hammock, into which the inner ends of the spreader fit, substantially as described.

3. The combination,with a hammock and spreaders, the ends of which spreaders are attached to said hammock by the outer cords only, said cords passing through holes in the outer ends of said spreaders, of a canopy hav- B, engaging said sockets and onneoted at their ling sockets, all arranged so that said spreadouter ends to the hammock, substantially as ers., when turned up, Will support and hold described.

the canopy in position, substantially as herein VINCET P. TRAVERS. 5 shown and described. Witnesses: l

4. The combination of a hammock, a canopy GUSTAV SCHNEPP,

having soeketsj and i, and two-part spreader HARRY M. TURK. 

